I do not see any consensus in that discussion. It had a very limited number of participants. I had trouble imagining how so few people can just ban many tens thousands of users from creating accounts. This proposal is just another version of [[bugzilla:30208]] and should follow its way.

I do not see any consensus in that discussion. It had a very limited number of
participants.

It was advertised, I'm sure I even saw it on CENT, the Global en.wiki template for listing RfCs.

I had trouble imagining how so few people can just ban many tens
thousands of users from creating accounts.

I'm going to take it you didn't read it properly or even just the closing admins notes? This proposal is to stop people who have a user account but not the autoconfirmed bit ([[WP:AUTOCONFIRMED]]) from creating even more accounts.

This proposal is just another version of [[bugzilla:30208]] and should follow its way.

I'm failing to see the correlation between someone that has a user account that does't already have auto-confirmed status stopping them from creating even more user accounts whilst LOGGED IN and preventing them from creating accounts. Perhaps you could point me in direction about that?

I do not see any consensus in that discussion. It had a very limited number of
participants. I had trouble imagining how so few people can just ban many tens
thousands of users from creating accounts. This proposal is just another
version of [[bugzilla:30208]] and should follow its way.

It is in no way the same thing, and should absolutely NOT follow the course it did; why don't you check the Signpost for September 26th to see how people reacted to that? I don't greatly care if this gets implemented or not (though I supported it), but to conflate the two is extremely misleading. I also think This, that and the other makes good points.

That can be done even with no checkuser rights. I think that this bug should be
wontfixed and a new enhacement opened to checkuser extension with wherever they
want the relationship to appear.

If the premise looks wrong to you, it's because you're misunderstanding it. We're trying to prevent him (and others, but mostly him) from being able to create 6 accounts and create that much more annoyance for the people cleaning up after him. We all know when it's him, that's not the issue; the issue is that he's creating ~300% more of a mess than he'd be able to if this was implemented.

I don't think enwiki requires this feature anymore; the editfiltermanagers are using an edit filter to collect relevant data. However, since I moved the component to MediaWiki, the bug is still technically valid. I'll leave it up to others to decide whether this is a useful feature to add to MW core.

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